Call me crazy, but I suspect the entire team read Zeeshan's strategies before they went to bed! This is nothing but deception before the war starts on Sunday. As Sun Tzu also said, " Pretend inferiority, to encourage his arrogance ". Go get Munshi !

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
Haha, we got kicked hard, so hard...

Butt kick koto procsar of ki ki they showed us all.

We don't know about the pitch condition. However in general term in ODI matches, 180 is not a good score to create any pressure to the opponent. Also if Enamul can score 37 runs with a SR of 77 (the highest amoung all BD batsman) without scoring a single 4 or 6, that tells me, the wicket cannot be that bad for batsman.

I don't worry that much about our bowling in general in this match. When you score 180 to defend, basically there is not much to defend. As ususal, I am more worried about our batting. If we want to win the series, we need to target a score of 270+ to create some pressure to the opponents. We cannot always expect that our bowlers will do miracle and win us games after games by booking opponents below 200. That is not going to happen and that is not fair to our bowlers.

Originally Posted by Fazal
. Also if Enamul can score 37 runs with a SR of 77 (the highest amoung all BD batsman) without scoring a single 4 or 6, that tells me, the wicket cannot be that bad for batsman.

I think there's some mistakes in the scorecard. No 4s from batsmen 5-11. I don't believe it.

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[edit] "After their triumphant tour of West Indies, Bangladesh were brought back to earth by Zimbabwe A, who thrashed them by seven wickets with 11.3 overs to spare in a warm-up one-dayer in Bulawayo." like wtf?

Umar and Iftikhar script crushing win

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The only positive from this match is this was a practice match. However I am not surprised at the result. True we have comprehensively won against a second string WI side, but in the yardstick of cricketing ability, metal fortitude, temperament, talent, unit cohesion and team spirit, the current Zimbabwe is way above the current WI side or any other previous ZIM side that we have faced after 2005. However, the factor that makes a ZIM series always a challenging hurdle for us is the doggedness of the Zimbabweans to prove that they are a better team than BD. This doggedness was born after the strike of the white player which on paper put Zimbabwe below BD in ranking, and since then this fierce feeling of doggedness has been present in the heart of every Zimbabwean player. Therefore whenever they play against BD, they attack like a hungry lion and we never win against them unless we bring our A game.

We still have a day to ponder over our mistakes, sort out our batting and team strategy and reorganize before the real show begins. Go Tigers!

I guess it is acceptable to some of us as long the boys showed up for the match. Who cares what the outcome of the match was. Who cares if we only lost by 7 wkts. Hey, we fan needs to consider that they traveled for four days. Coming to the match, we knew we were going to lose.
I guess, a competitive game was too much to ask for.

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Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
Haha, we got kicked hard, so hard...

I am expecting more kicks to come.....we already got hard slaps earlier this year

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Sports Reporter- A jaded Bangladesh team suffered a seven-wicket defeat to the Zimbabwe A team in the lone warm-up game on Friday before the five-match ODI series which kicks off tomorrow at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo.
Middle-order batsman Rokibul Hasan slammed a half-century (55) while vice-captain Mushfiqur Rahim added 33 after the visitors decided to bat first but their efforts were not good enough to put up a descent total on the board as the Tigers were bundled out for 180 in 49.3 overs at the Bulawayo Athletic Club.
After an early hiccup, Forster Mutizwa and captain Tatenda Taibu fashioned the home side's easy victory as Zimbabwe A coasted to the victory target of 181 in 38.1 overs for the loss of only three wickets.
Mutizwa smashed unbeaten 78 while former Zimbabwe skipper and wicketkeeper Taibu, who has been banned for ten matches after an internal Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) hearing found him guilty of an offence, contributed with an unbeaten 66.
Pacer Nazmul Hossain caused the early damage by taking two wickets while Syed Rasel picked up one wicket.
Pacers Rubel Hossain and Mahbubul Alam and left-handed batsman Mehrab Hossain were left out of the lone practice game.
Buoyed by their historic success in West Indies, Shakib Al Hasan's men reached Bulawayo on Thursday after a gruelling 40 hours journey via London, Dubai, Johannesburg and Harare with a mission to carry on their good form despite their five-wicket loss to West Indies in the T20 match in the last match in the Caribbean.
It was however a tough task for the Tigers to come out in the field a day after such an exhausting journey. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) however had somehow settled on such a hectic schedule."Yes, it was really a tough task for the boys to come out in the field after such a gruelling travel and that might have affected in their batting. The people concerned should have looked at the schedule. It's inhuman to play cricket the very next day after journeying over 40 hours," said BCB's media committee chairman Jalal Yunus when asked about the schedule. It was learnt that the players had also faced problem with their kits as the luggage was displaced in the Johannesburg airport and that's why it did not reach on time in Zimbabwe. They received their luggage just before the start of the practice match.When asked, Jalal Yunus admitted the incident. "Yes, we have informed that the kits did not arrive on time," he said.